Tuesday, 14 October 2008
if obama doesnt win, i wonder what it'll be like. strange? hopeless? how will the world take it? move on after the storm that the media has kicked up recedes? that'll be interesting to watch. or even more scary, what if mccain wins and something happens so he's out of office during term and then palin takes over? WHOA.
if there was no such thing as poverty, what would have had to change?
...the economy- so that everyone had enough/more? the political system- so there was no such definition of poverty? society- so that everyone would care enough to provide enough?
or something more?
if humans could fly- would we really lose sight of the ground? would the sky lose its notion of freedom because we would take our burdens there (as a poet once said)? would we really want to fly as much?
if no one had any ideals- would anything change about the world? cause no one would have any ideal to work towards? or would it mean that there would be no concpet of change or rather progress because nothing can be better than another- because there isnt a notion of range of "better" and "best"? or is that flawed logic? because people can still judge the difference between something good and bad without needing to know what the best is? yes, perhaps thats how things work. (but then is that not an incomplete range of judgments?)
if we didnt have postcolonialism and postmodernism- which writers would be winning the booker and pullitzer prizes?
if man WAS an island, could we be happy islands? =)
someday we'll have to stop speculating. then we'll have to deal with the answers.
if there was no such thing as poverty, what would have had to change?
...the economy- so that everyone had enough/more? the political system- so there was no such definition of poverty? society- so that everyone would care enough to provide enough?
or something more?
if humans could fly- would we really lose sight of the ground? would the sky lose its notion of freedom because we would take our burdens there (as a poet once said)? would we really want to fly as much?
if no one had any ideals- would anything change about the world? cause no one would have any ideal to work towards? or would it mean that there would be no concpet of change or rather progress because nothing can be better than another- because there isnt a notion of range of "better" and "best"? or is that flawed logic? because people can still judge the difference between something good and bad without needing to know what the best is? yes, perhaps thats how things work. (but then is that not an incomplete range of judgments?)
if we didnt have postcolonialism and postmodernism- which writers would be winning the booker and pullitzer prizes?
if man WAS an island, could we be happy islands? =)
someday we'll have to stop speculating. then we'll have to deal with the answers.
~
Running
I am letting my legs do the talking,
conferring long-distance with the earth,
supplicating again for stillness. The iambic
crunch of my shoes on gravel chews up one mile, two,
slowly reaching the state of milelessness, breath
threading a mantra of wordless pants, spirit
easing into gear, carrying body into darkness
into light, the chant of feet renewing faith
in the earth, in the invisible end which recedes,
the pacer pushing us into infinity
still the red light begins to flash
and reminds of mortal limits. You stop,
emptied, the spirit ahead somewhere,
still running.
- Boey Kim Cheng (from "After the Fire" 2006)
Running
I am letting my legs do the talking,
conferring long-distance with the earth,
supplicating again for stillness. The iambic
crunch of my shoes on gravel chews up one mile, two,
slowly reaching the state of milelessness, breath
threading a mantra of wordless pants, spirit
easing into gear, carrying body into darkness
into light, the chant of feet renewing faith
in the earth, in the invisible end which recedes,
the pacer pushing us into infinity
still the red light begins to flash
and reminds of mortal limits. You stop,
emptied, the spirit ahead somewhere,
still running.
- Boey Kim Cheng (from "After the Fire" 2006)
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